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True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than she who comet sound out of the school of severity and restraint.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
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French Moralist
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity.
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Marriage can be compared to a cage: birds outside it despair to enter, and birds within, to escape.
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A man must not always tell all, for that be folly but what a man says should be what he thinks.
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It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.
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I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
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The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable.
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Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.
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Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own.
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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Philosophical discussions habitually make men happy and joyful not frowning and sad.
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The honor we receive from those that fear us, is not honor those respects are paid to royalty and not to me.
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The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world yet all this is but One.
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Long life, and short, are by death made all one for there is no long, nor short, to things that are no more.
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Other people do not see you at all, but guess at you by uncertain conjectures.
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The world is but a school of inquisition it is not who shall enter the ring, but who shall run the best courses.
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A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.
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